Installing Windows 11 on Legacy BIOS Without Secure Boot

Re:Installing Windows 11 on Legacy BIOS Without Secure Boot by eecc on Sunday June 27, 2021 @02:21AM (#27649093)

Uhm, but on my Thinkpad I have to add keys to load Linux in trusted mode (installer asks to choose a password to lock these keys in order to establish their legitimacy when rebooting.)

Also Ventoy needs to install user-defined keys into UEFI to make it work with Secure Boot.

So my assumption is that - at least on Thinkpads - you can add your own user-defined keys; the only Caudine Fork where a Microsoft blessed loader might be involved is the one used by the distro installer.

Or am I missing something

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Re:Installing Windows 11 on Legacy BIOS Without Secure Boot by michaelmrose on Monday June 28, 2021 @12:34AM (#27658163)

When this was first discussed in the early 2000s the very legitimate worry was that it would be introduced as optional and gradually become mandatory terminating in machines where the user had as little control over the hardware/software as a game console.

There is no reason to believe that this wasn't implemented thus far because of the high ethical standards Microsoft folks have historically adhered to and while we are to believe Microsoft has turned over a new leaf much of the current leadership was involved at the executive level in old bad Microsoft.

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